He is actively peddling new lies that could impact U.S. elections after meeting with Russian intelligence officials in November,” prosecutors said in court papers. Smirnov noted, seemingly as an aside, that Hunter Biden was on Burisma’s board, which had been widely reported. One sentence of that memo referred to “a brief, non-relevant discussion” about Hunter Biden. In January 2023, Smirnov spoke of learning from a Russian intelligence officer the location of another Russian intelligence officer and that person’s first name. He later shared a Russian businessman’s plans for a birthday party aboard a yacht where two oligarchs in attendance were known to have ties to a senior Russian intelligence official.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 26, 2024 20:05 UTC